DRAM Hammering Exploit

[EmeraldBot]

If you look at this: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html , there's an exploit where apparently repeatedly accessing a row of memory can actually flip surrounding bits. All the tests were done on Linux, so I don't know that FreeBSD would be vulnerable, but I don't see why not. Thoughts?

 

[junovitch@]

There's a ongoing discussion on the FreeBSD-Security on the topic. http://markmail.org/message/dajiu34cawd2ifc7

 

[drhowarddrfine]

This is new? I remember reading about this over 30 years ago when I designed and built computers from scratch.